Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-14
MR. AND MRS BOwsER
A Good Wife Announces That Mr. Bowser is a
Kind Hearted Man and Gives Her Authority
Defrnit Eraa Press

A Good Wife Announces That Mr. Bowser is a
Kind Hearted Man and Gives Her Authority
Detroit Free Press.
l don't want the public to get the i'm
preston that Mr.. Bowser is not kind
hearted man. Such an idea would do
him great injustice. He is little queer
in some of his ways, but all right as
whole, and more tender hearted man
never lived. When we began house
keeping and got our first hired girl, Mr..
Bowser called me into the library, shut
the door and dropped his voice down to
the confidential pitch and said;
"Mrs. Bowser, let's start out right.
Let's respect the feelings of that poor
girl in the kitchen"
"Certainly."
"Shes Just as good as we are, and we
mustn't put on any airs over her. She
shall eat at the same table with Us, and
if she has any time from her work you
might learn her how TO sing and play on
the piano
II can't quite agree with you Mr.. Bow.
SER"
"Oh, YOU can't! Woman's mortal
enemy is woman. Well, I'm going out
TO have little talk with Eliza and tel
her what I'm going to do"
listened at the kitchen door. Mr..
Bo wser Is no man to beat about the bush
he went right at the business in hand by
saying:
"Eh4a nobility does not consist in
riches
She slid away from him toward the
| sink.
you are not TO blame for being ia
/ your present position. How would you
/ like to take singing lessons?'
/ She looked at him with open mouth.
And learn to play the piano|
! She opened her mouth still wider
"And, perhaps, learn how to sketch and
paintW
She seized a par of water in the sink
and whirled on him with:
you internal cross-eyed old repro
bate to talk to an innocent girl in that
fashion! Get out of my kitchen or III
drown You in minute!"
When We sat down to supper wonder
ed why Eliza hadn't put on plate for
herself and l asked Mr. Bowser when
should begin her piano lessons.
"Mrs. Bowser, have you lost the little
sense you possessed two or three months
ago?" he holly exclaimed, and | thought
it best to let the subject drop right
there.
A few days after that a boy about s
years old came to the door TO beg. and
as soon as Mr.. Bowser caught sight of
him he observed:
"Call the little shaver in, and let him
see that the milk of human kindness has
not dried up. Now give him good
breakfast
The cook stuffed him until he could
eat no more and then Mr.. Bowser brought
him into the sitting room and cut his
hair, washed the little ones face with
his cwn hands, and was going to call the
cook in to wash his feet when protest
ed
Now. Nj. Bowser, that is going to far
We don't keep county house here"
Don't we! l wouldn't have your
mean spirit for all the money in Amer
lea! 1t is just such people as you VINO
have added to the woes of poverty and
the wickedness of the world"
"But we can't make such fuss over
every beggar who comes along"
"Nobody expects you to. You are
expected to stand in the door with crow
bar and brain every poor unfortunate
who stops to ask for monthful of food.
/ shall 90 home with this boy. | want to
have a talk with his father, and it may
end in my adopting him.
Mr.. Bowser led the boy away and it
seemed as l afterwards came to know,
went home with him. When he left the
boys house q man was chasing him with
/ a shovel, and a woman with hoe handle
was trying to head him off, and the boy
himself stood in the door and clapped
his hands When Mr.. Bowser came home
asked him what had become of his
adopted son, and he roared at me;
None of your business! If | had your
spirit I'd expect to be struck by light
ning!'
When we got our horse ". got col
ored man to take care of him, and at
their first interview I heard Mr. Bowser
say to him.
Now, Johnson, you are not to blame
for either your color or your lack of educa
ton. You have not had show. Take
that barn and manage il according to
your own Judgment I've got a suit of
clothes in the house for you, and there
are plenty of books in the library.
Mr.. Johnson took ten books from the
library On the first day OF his,arrival. On
the second day be disappeared. So did
the books; so did the harness and robes
and lot of tools. Mr.. Bowsor was lri-
Gus, IL wanted ten detectives on the case
all at once, and as he started to the tele
phone l said:"Perhaps he has retired to a
cave with the ten books TO enrich his mind.
and perhaps ! amt the biggest idiot in
the state of Michigan for marrying you p
he shouted back, as he ground away at the
crank and lifted the chief of police off his
chair.
Mrs. j. g. BLAINE, Jr., Is an uncom-
monty handsome woman, very tall and
sniritnelle with a nhnnnmennl win. O